Yury Olesha

Yury Olesha

Birth : 1899-02-19, Yelisavetgrad, Russian Empire [now Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine]

Death : 1960-05-10

History

Yury Karlovich Olesha (3 March 1899 – 10 May 1960) was a Ukranian-born Russian prose writer and playwright whose works address the conflict between old and new mentalities in the early years of the Soviet Union. He is best known for his satirical novel 'Envy' (1927), revolutionary fairy tale 'Three Fat Men' (1928), stage play 'A List of Benefits' (1931), the screenplay for Abram Room's 1936 film 'A Severe Young Man' and his posthumously published memoir 'No Day Without a Line' (1965). He is sometimes grouped with his contemporaries Ilf and Petrov, Isaac Babel, and Sigismund Krzhizhanovsky into the Odessa School of Writers. He is considered one of the greatest Russian novelists of the 20th century, one of the few to have succeeded in writing works of lasting artistic merit despite the stifling censorship of the era. Writing in expressionistc style, Olesha's work differed radically from the school of the Socialist Realism. When the authorities realized that Olesha was more ambiguous than was permissible, he fell from favor. After Stalin's death, Olesha was rehabilitated.

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Yury Olesha
Yury Olesha

Movies

Separated
Novel
A brother and sister are pulled apart by rich oligarchs named The Three Fat Men.
Tsvety zapozdalye
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Three Fat Men
Novel
Based on a famous fairytale by Yuri Olesha.
Three Fat Men
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The Tale About the Dead Princess and Seven Strong Men
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Animated film based on the story of Alexander Pushkin. The new king's wife wants to get rid of their stepdaughter and expels it to certain death in the forest. Princess finds refuge in the forest in the seven bogatyrs. The queen, finds out about it and poisons her...
The Girl at the Circus
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Engineer Kochin's Error
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Engineer-designer of the Moscow aviation plant Cochin took the secret blueprints home. He didn't know that foreign intelligence had long been hunting for these blueprints...
Soldiers of the Swamp
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This story of the Nazi prison camps in the 1930s deals with the attempts of the Nazi guards to break the spirit of the Communists in concentration camps.
A Severe Young Man
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The film’s content makes no concessions to the usual expectations of Soviet audiences of the 1930s. The cast of characters is extremely unlikely in almost every conventional respect. The action involves the household of the prominent Dr. Stepanov and his young wife, Masha, who share their large and richly adorned mansion with the parasitical Fedor Tsitronov, whose presence in the household is given only the most implausible of explanations. Equally implausible is the acquaintance of the family with the young and proud Grisha Fokin, whose leadership role in the Young Communist League is never clearly defined and who is never seen engaged in any work or professional activity.